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217 matches to Leo X
Enghien, Duc d’. Prince of Condé. 1772-1804. Executed for alleged plot against Napoleon.
Euler, Leonhard. 1707-83. Swiss mathematician. Calculus, optics. Analytic geometry.
Favre, Jules. 1809-80. French statesman. Opposed Napoleon III.
Ferdinand I. c1016-1065. King of Castile and Leon. Began expulsion of Moors.
Ferdinand III. 1199-1252. King of Castile and Leon. Pushed Moors from most of Spain.
Fibonacci, Leonardo. 1170-1240. Pisa mathematician. Book of Abacus 1202. Fibonacci Numbers 1203. Practica Geometrica 1220.
Florentine. School of Painting. 1270 Academy of Fine Arts. Express humanist ideas through art. Realism and chiarascuro. DaVinci, Michelangelo, Raphael.
Fontainebleau, Treaty. 1807. Established Napoleon’s right to march on Portugal through Spain.
Foucault, Léon. 1819-68. Proved rotation of the earth in an experiment at the Pantheon, Paris, 1851. Gyroscope, 1852.
Fouché, Joseph. 1758-1820. French Revolutionary. Minister of Police 1779~1815. Secret police. Intrigued vs Robespierre 1794, Napoleon 1799,1807; Louis XVIII 1814.
Frederick VI. 1769-1839. King of Norway and Denmark, 1808-. Sided with Napoleon. Lost Norway to Sweden.
French Revolution. 1789-99. Monarchy overthrown. Republic established 1792. Caused by Absolutism, financial crisis, Enlightenment. Terror. Napoleon. French Revolutionary Wars.
French Revolutionary Wars. 1792-1802. France vs European powers who opposed Revolution. Napoleonic Wars. Coalition. Pillnitz.
Fuchs, Leonhard. 1501-66. German naturalist. Compendium of medicinal plants. Historia Stirpium 1542.
Galicia. Gallaecci. c137BC Rome. 411 Suevi. 585 Visigoth. 1072 León.
Galileo Galilei. 1564-1642. Italian physicist. Planetary motion. Thermometer 1592. Acceleration of falling bodies 1604. Astronomical telescope 1609. Sunspots 1610. Arrested for heliocentricity, 1632. Rehabilitated by Vatican 1992. Copernicus.
Gambetta, Léon. 1838-82. French Third Republic leader.
Gneisenau, August. 1760-1831. Prussian general vs Napoleon.
Godiva, Lady. c1040-80. Rode naked through Coventry to protest taxes. Wife of Earl Leofric.
Grande Armée. 1805-12. Napoleon’s 1,000,000 man army; combined smaller armies for central control.
Gros, Antoine. 1771-1835. French painter of Napoleon’s military career.
Hardenberg, Karl von. 1750-1822. Prussian chancellor 1810- during Napoleonic Wars. Citizenship to Jews.
Heliocentricity. Revolution of the earth around the sun. Once considered heretical. Galileo. Copernicus.
Heliopolis. 1800. Egyptian battle. Kléber defeats Mameluks. Original site of Cleopatra’s Needles.
Hospitallers, Knights. 11C-. Order of St. John. First devoted to aid of pilgrims to Holy Land. Prominent in crusades. Bought Rhodes 1309. Expelled by Ottomans, 1522. Given Malta by Charles V, 1530. Expelled by Napoleon, 1798. = Knights of Malta.